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oceanstone··on I built a amp+cab+effects simulator for guitar on a Raspberry Pi 4B
Thanks for building this! Also, great performance of Still Remains. I'm looking forward to checking out the Kickstarter. Any chance you could add support for Google Assistant?
oceanstone··on Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?
If a smoker does get it though, is it more severe?

> Consistent with earlier results, the few smokers who do get diagnosed sem to be more likely to progress to severe illness (3/5 vs ~1/5 expected). https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fdb2g6/new_study_r...

oceanstone··on The future of my games on Apple and what this means for art games
Last year I was building web games* with Phaser. To better support iOS, I just changed the renderer to `canvas` when an iOS user agent was detected. In the end, the games worked pretty well on iOS devices.

*Games I worked on: https://livegame.show/play/ride_v3 | https://livegame.show/play/pewpew_v6 | https://livegame.show/play/bubbleshooter3

I will say though, Apple does seem to almost purposefully hold back the web on iOS. I suppose this makes native iOS apps, which must pay Apple 30% of their revenue, more appealing to users. On iOS, the Firefox and Chrome apps aren't allowed to include their own browser engines. They have to just wrap Safari webviews.

On Android, the Firefox app is allowed to include it's own browser engine. An engine that supports adblocking extensions like uBlock Origin.

oceanstone··on Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
I'm pretty sure your proposal would cause every Fitbit user to switch to Bing
oceanstone··on Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
Google Drive is disabled in China
oceanstone··on For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate
I'd like to read up on the exemptions, deductions, and credits you mentioned. Is there a link you'd recommend?
oceanstone··on Hong Kong protests: Authorities to announce face mask ban
I have so much respect for those protesters.
oceanstone··on App Updates for HTML5 Apps
Sadly, Apple almost seems to purposefully keeps mobile Safari buggy for HTML5 apps. You might think, why not install Firefox or Chrome on iOS then? Well, turns out Apple only allows those apps to use an outdated version of Safari as their browser engine.

Here's a regression that appeared in iOS 10, which affects HTML5 games. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37808180/disable-viewpor...

oceanstone··on Attorney General Barr and Encryption
EFF, Demand Progress, and FFTF are great ones
oceanstone··on Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
Yep, it's opt in for publishers. For users, the only way to opt out currently is to view in desktop mode.
oceanstone··on Is Google evil? (2017)
Here's an example of Google fighting a NSL in court https://www.wired.com/2013/04/google-fights-nsl/
oceanstone··on You probably won’t get $125 from the Equifax settlement
I wish there was a way to opt out of being tracked by these credit agencies, beyond just freezing credit.
oceanstone··on YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
Speaking personally (obv) that's scary and if they don't change the ToS I can imagine reviewers will keep making similar mistakes
oceanstone··on YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
> Yesterday, Youtube froze Kody Kinzie's longrunning Cyber Weapons Lab channel

Did his channel get unbanned? Kody's website links to this active channel with its first video uploaded in Oct 2017: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTNupxATBfWmfehv21ym-g

edit: Yep looks like the ban was a mistake ️

> In a subsequent comment, a YouTube spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that Cyber Weapons Lab’s channel was flagged by mistake and the videos have since been reinstated. “With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call,” the spokesperson said. “We have an appeals process in place for users, and when it’s brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it.”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/20681586/youtube-ban-instr...

oceanstone··on Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working
> Right now, I don't believe there is a way to disable AMP

Desktop mode disables AMP on Chrome Android for me. I haven't tested with iOS though.

oceanstone··on Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
> All of them work, but are prohibitively expensive to get started

Firestore has a free tier: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/quotas#free-quota

oceanstone··on Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
Netflix added banners promoting net neutrality to their website if I remember correctly.
oceanstone··on Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
> The key components of the Warren plan include passing legislation that would designate companies with annual global revenue above $25 billion that provide marketplace, exchange, or third-party connectivity as “platform utilities” and prohibit those companies from owning participants on their platforms.

As a Googler, speaking for myself, this seems like an interesting idea that could positively impact the tech scene.

oceanstone··on Ask HN: Things You Wish You Knew Before Getting into Machine Learning
Sometimes people you work with, like team members or PMs, will really want to understand ML and be involved but will have a hard time grasping the concepts being discussed. I found it really helped to draw out and illustrate the different components and data flows!
oceanstone··on Oracle's Newest Audit Tactic: Focusing on Java
Node.js, optionally with TypeScript, and VS Code as an IDE
oceanstone··on The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation
I looked at the "Google" page (https://www.thecreepyline.com/programs/google-v2) and noticed it doesn't mention a few kind of important things.

(1) You can pause activity collection at https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols

(2) You can delete activity here https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity

Also, does anyone know if Facebook offers interfaces like these?

oceanstone··on Fallout 76 Day One Patch Is Larger Than the Game Itself
Could physical copies still be traded, whereas digital downloads are typically tied to a single account?
oceanstone··on Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
Can you provide a source for the shadow profile claim?
oceanstone··on ‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200M Game
Rust left early access this January, after 4 years. https://rust.facepunch.com/blog/leaving-early-access/
oceanstone··on Google Maps Platform now integrated with the GCP Console
What do you like most about Azure Portal UI?
oceanstone··on Google Maps Platform now integrated with the GCP Console
> The UX of the main menu, however, is terrible. Scrolling through it is incredibly slow because the submenus are synchronously expanding while scrolling, and I've had a submenu get so stuck I had to refresh the page to be able to interact with anything.

Thanks for the feedback, fixes are on the way for the issues you mentioned. :)

oceanstone··on Google Maps Platform now integrated with the GCP Console
I'm curious what you all think of GCP Console?
oceanstone··on Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
Pretty sure Gmail isn't being used for ad targeting anymore https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.h...
oceanstone··on You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about you
Do any other big tech companies offer interfaces like this?
oceanstone··on You will be surprised to see how much Google tracks about you
Have you tried just pausing history instead? https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
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